Otherfoot: Only Pen and Paper Required
November 12, 2015 11:23 AM Subscribe
Otherfoot: Only Pen and Paper Required [via mefi projects] A concise ruleset for a DIY Roll-Your-Own kind of Apples-To-Apples type game.
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I'm looking forward to this
perhaps i need new friends?
posted by rebent at 11:34 AM on November 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
perhaps i need new friends?
posted by rebent at 11:34 AM on November 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
So: smarter than Apples to Apples, but less inherently mean-spirited than Cards Against Humanity? I'm on board.
posted by Cash4Lead at 11:52 AM on November 12, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Cash4Lead at 11:52 AM on November 12, 2015 [4 favorites]
I like this quietly disposing of boring cards business.
I like the idea of unquietly disposing of them also, and making that part of the game.
I imagine this getting out of hand and everything turning into Card Death.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:21 PM on November 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
I like the idea of unquietly disposing of them also, and making that part of the game.
I imagine this getting out of hand and everything turning into Card Death.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:21 PM on November 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
Excellent. Now we need a site with an online version like "Pretend You're Xyzzy", the one for CAH. Because I am seriously antisocial and most of my current IRL friends can't be trusted with pen and paper.
from the FAQ:
Why is the game called Otherfoot?
Legend has it, “other foot” was simply the phrase on the card that came up when the Old Ones were deciding what to name the game.
I'd prefer it if there were a complicated backstory with one of the early players in the bad habit of prefacing the reading of all his response cards with "On the other hand..." and Otherfoot just being a deterrent for him. Because I could've been that annoying person.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:34 PM on November 12, 2015
from the FAQ:
Why is the game called Otherfoot?
Legend has it, “other foot” was simply the phrase on the card that came up when the Old Ones were deciding what to name the game.
I'd prefer it if there were a complicated backstory with one of the early players in the bad habit of prefacing the reading of all his response cards with "On the other hand..." and Otherfoot just being a deterrent for him. Because I could've been that annoying person.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:34 PM on November 12, 2015
Any game that has me scribbling half-assed and incomplete "witticisms" on index cards is basically meth for me. Sold.
posted by middleclasstool at 12:42 PM on November 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by middleclasstool at 12:42 PM on November 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
Well, now I need to make 2 - 5 friends.
posted by meese at 1:09 PM on November 12, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by meese at 1:09 PM on November 12, 2015 [5 favorites]
It also reminds me of The Metagame, but making your own cards sounds more fun.
posted by wintersweet at 1:11 PM on November 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by wintersweet at 1:11 PM on November 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Or if you'd rather throw some Fluxx into the mix, there's 1000 Blank White Cards.
posted by rikschell at 2:41 PM on November 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by rikschell at 2:41 PM on November 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
I played (roughly) this game with a big group of friends in a tiny house in Berkeley once years ago and still think back on it fondly. I'd heard of Apples to Apples, but never actually played it. We opened up a lot of bottles of two buck chuck and drank wine and chatted until we had a big enough pile of cards. Some genius made a card for "the feeling you get when you see a bunny" that was one of my favorites. And "real" Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity has never felt as fun as that game.
posted by duien at 2:51 PM on November 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by duien at 2:51 PM on November 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
I will try this at happy hour today. Yay!
posted by Literaryhero at 5:49 PM on November 12, 2015
posted by Literaryhero at 5:49 PM on November 12, 2015
Fantastic idea. It reminds me of 1000 Blank Cards (which I have wanted to play for YEARS!) but a bit lower-stakes with respect to the card creation - maybe I'll finally be able to talk some friends into playing a game where you make up your own cards.
My second-biggest beef with CAH is that the cards get boring; it's vaguely amusing the first two times you play it but amusement quickly drops off after that.
posted by invokeuse at 8:02 PM on November 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
My second-biggest beef with CAH is that the cards get boring; it's vaguely amusing the first two times you play it but amusement quickly drops off after that.
posted by invokeuse at 8:02 PM on November 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Wow. I read the rules once and they are simple enough that I'll remember them. I don't have to bookmark the page. Great feature!
posted by alms at 10:35 AM on November 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by alms at 10:35 AM on November 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
we played this last night! it was quite good. I think we needed to figure out some better rules about who can get rid of cards, when. But, yeah, very good game!
posted by rebent at 3:45 PM on November 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by rebent at 3:45 PM on November 15, 2015 [1 favorite]
I tried this at at a bar the other night -- everyone caught on right away, and it was fun. Thank you for this!
posted by spacewaitress at 1:26 PM on November 18, 2015
posted by spacewaitress at 1:26 PM on November 18, 2015
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posted by the_blizz at 11:28 AM on November 12, 2015 [2 favorites]